Former Vogue Australia editor lifts the lid on modelling world with The Vogue Factor

Last May, Kristie Clements was sacked as the editor of
Vogue
Australia after 13 years in the top seat. Promptly replaced by the editor of rival style title
Harper's Bazaar,
Clements decided to lift the lid on all that she has witnessed in her 25 years in the industry by penning
The Vogue Factor.

Tales of models eating tissues to fill themselves up appears, as does an anecdote about a three-day location trip to Morocco, where Clements spent three days with a model who she didn't see eat a thing; by the final day, the model was so weak with hunger that she could barely hold herself up.

The
Daily Mail
also report how Clements claims that: "When a model who was getting good work in Australia starved herself down two sizes in order to be cast in the overseas shows ... the Vogue fashion office would say she'd become 'Paris thin'."

Clements also relays a conversation with a Russian model, whose 'fit model' flatmate was used by many top design houses to try on and test work-in-progress samples. As a result, the friend was "in hospital on a drip a lot of the time."

Amid these revelations, Clements never actually names the often arrogant image-makers she collaborated with during her time at the style bible.

Just days before Clements' sudden departure, she had united with 19 other international
Vogue
editors to launch 'The Health Initiative', a programme designed to ensure that fashion models used by
Vogue
are well cared for and educated in ways that will encourage and help them to take care of themselves, addressing as many of the pressing issues relating to ill-health in the industry as can realistically be tackled.

Clements, who will undoubtedly be criticised for seeking 'revenge' on her old employer, is described in the book's blurb as "always steadfast in her dedication to quality. Above all, she is always Vogue."

One reviewer on Amazon writes: "This is not "The Devil wears Prada" or anything like it. The author loved her job and she does not use this book as an outlet to punish the people who sacked her or to tell nasty secrets."